Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiastic Rotarian, and he and Elsie have traveled quite a bit in South America and Europe. At an international Rotary meeting in Nice, France, Williams became a hero to his fellow Americans by discovering a restaurant that served Maxwell House coffee...
...Nice car," said one of the old men. "Isn't it, though," said his friend, "but his wife is not so handsome after all. She is a bit thin-featured, I would say." The women in the crowd murmured about the candidate's dark good looks...
...with the Dever pin watched the police take the barriers apart and push them into their paddy wagon. "Damn good speaker," he said. "And damn decent. Makes a good impression. And a very courteous crowd, too. It's good that they gave him a hearing. He's a nice young man. Last time one like that came down here, it was Coolidge. They threw rocks. And then this Lodge's father was down once too. A very distinguished old gentleman. It's good to let people hear for themselves. I'm very glad they didn't throw rocks...
...band's chairs and stacked them in front of Cabit's Pharmacy. The streetlights went on, and traffic began to move along Broadway again. The woman in the gray coat took her Saturday Evening Post pages and folded them carefully into her handbag. "Didn't she have a nice smile? She looked so proud of him. And weren't those children darling? They didn't move once while he was talking." She smiled and pointed to her handbag. "It's too bad they had to rush them off like that. He would've given me that autograph stare...
...contrast to this, both Charles Laughton and David Wayne soar far beyond O. Henry's narrow limits in The Cop and the Anthem. Both are tramps who spend the summer in New York's parks, the winter in its jails. But getting into "a nice, warm cell" is not as easy as one might think. Blending pathos with humor, Laughton steals an umbrella, breaks a window, swindles a restaurant--all unnoticed by the police. In the best tradition of O. Henry irony, he is nabbed just when he decides to turn respectable...